I apologize for the lack of updates on this site… it’s been easier for me to manage the group through Meetup.com.

If you are subscribed to this feed, you should probably just join the Meetup group. Until I find a better use for this site, the Meetup group page will serve as our base.

Thanks to Jeremy, Andrew and Shawn for coming out last night! We had a good time over burgers and beer – and I got some good insight for upcoming meetups.

My next task will be finding locations and topics for the next few meetups. Are you interested in hosting an event, or giving a talk (on anything)? Let me know!

I’m tentatively scheduling our first meetup for Thursday, March 31 2011 at 6:00pm.

We will meet at Jimmy’s Charhouse in Riverwoods, IL. I figure for our first meeting, we can just meet in the bar and introduce ourselves. We can discuss a better place to meet for future events.

I just created our Meetup.com profile!

If anyone is interested in hosting an event for the group, please let me know ASAP.

I started this user group in the summer of 2009, and it never really got off the ground. The old website was bland, uninformative and… pretty much terrible.

I am looking to get this user group running again – so updating the website was a small step forward. Using WordPress as a foundation will provide the ability to quickly post updates on upcoming meetings.

More news to come soon!